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Hawaiians are most proud of their environment, and they make sure to care for it. They even call themselves Keiki o ka aina, which simply means “children of the land.” Hawaiians’ respect and care for their environment has been a pillar of their traditions.

There have been mutual benefits between the Hawaiians and their environment; while nature gives them food, clothes, housing materials, working tools such as musical instruments and transport means, they in turn care for it by conserving and maintaining practices that do not harm it. Waiakea, being part of this responsible community, takes environmental care as its priority.

Waiakea is doing this through incorporating industrial processes that are friendly to the environment. These include using biodegradable materials during their bottling process, ensuring low emission during shipping process, and active and full participation in planting trees and reducing emission of carbon.

Environment-friendly bottling

Waiakea is using a high quality recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) bottles to distribute its premium drinking water. This means that their bottles can be recycled after use to reduce strain on the environment.

As compared to regular bottles, 100% RPET bottles consume over 85% less energy during the production process, while the process itself consumes 90% less water reducing the emission of carbon particles by more than 90%.

Reliable source of water

Waiakea sources its water from a rich and diverse forest reserved region located east of Mauna Loa Volcano. Their aquifer located in Kea’au stores more than 200 inches of fresh rainwater annually. It is fed by water from snowmelt of Mauna Loa Volcano. This means that Waiakea receives fresh water that could provide the whole world for an entire year (393 million gallons per day).

Waiakea also uses over 33% of renewable energy to drive its operations. This practice is in line with Hawaiian’s environmental conservation practices.

Waiakea, CarbonNeutral® certified

Due to Waiakea’s efforts to offset any method that adds carbon to the environment, they became the first beverage company in the world to be CarbonNeutral® certified in 2012. Since then, the two have worked for hand in hand to preserve Hawaii’s ecosystem.

About Waiakea

Waiakea was founded in 2012 as the pioneer of volcanic water in Hawaii. The company provides safe and sweet Hawaiian volcanic water for drinking. They have environmentally friendly practices, such as their bottles being made of RPET an environment-friendly material.